Suffused Irritability Quote by Ian McEwan

“Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to…

— Jane Austen

“The word troubled her, though. ‘Indispensable.’ It was a word people tended to resort to when dispensability was in the air.”

— Michel Faber

“They were oddities, marginal and not exactly respectable. For her part, Chaps was too well read to be considered entirely proper. Books had made…

— Sheridan Hay

“Austen really had a thing against Marys.”

— Katherine Reay

“Reasonable behavior was the last thing you wanted. You felt as if the resolution of human problems demanded passion and brute unreason, some spitting…

— William Boyd

“Despite the countless acts of violence that the two had witnessed, and even participated in, over the years, they were still shocked by what…

— Stephen A. Reger

“What exasperated her was that Charles seemed to have no notion of her torment. His conviction that he was making her happy struck her…

— Gustave Flaubert

“It seemed they viewed her differently now. She had status. She mattered. All at once they were interested in what she had to say.…

— Anne Tyler

“Colin didn’t want to go back to his room. He walked around for a very long time, looking down at the sidewalks and streets,…

— Tao Lin

“Both their attention and their neglect were equally intolerable. His world had become complicated and interesting and magical. Theirs was mundane and domestic. They…

— Lev Grossman

“It was a compound of self-reliance, hard knocks, heart hunger, unceasing work, and generosity. There was no form of suffering with which the girl…

— Gene Stratton Porter

“She recognized the signs of danger. When she’d said to the duke that she had a certain effect on men, she hadn’t been exaggerating.…

— Sherry Thomas